Photo/Text: Victor Osaka Art Direction: Aline LaPierre

“A good idea is never lost.Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it,
it will someday be reborn in the mind of another….”Thomas Edison

“The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate experiments…. Although I was never myself discouraged or hopeless of its success, I can not say the same for my associates…. Through all of the years of experimenting with it, I never once made an associated discovery. It was deductive… The results I achieved were the consequence of invention – pure and simple. I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.”